The worst fears for the group were realized less than 24 hours later. If the Astros win this game today, it will be a great big step in the positive direction towards winning on the road more consistently. And on the other side of town the Mets may be relieved they don’t have to deal with a situation that Girardi and his team had to deal with when it came to Gomez. We all knew we were in for a fight. Scott Feldman started for the Astros and also went eight shutout innings, giving up six hits, no walks and striking out six.
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As Girardi noted, this isn’t the first time Gomez has been in a situation like this.
St. Louis’ Tommy Pham had his second career three-hit game to help the Cardinals cruised past Arizona 9-1. In came Chad Qualls and Beltran, swinging first pitch, sent the game-winning fly ball to centre.
Gomez busted out of a hitting droop together with a number of teammates and rankled the Yankees together with his flashy type. His team mate Beltran had all the praise for the pitcher saying that he has been throwing at speed of 100 miles per hour.
Still, the Yankees couldn’t have been especially encouraged by Pineda (9-8), who showed no signs of the top-of-the-rotation starter they had hoped for and instead saw the same pitcher he was before landing on the disabled list in July with a strained forearm muscle.
The Yankees (69-56), who had four hits and didn’t score until the ninth, fell to one game behind the Blue Jays in the AL East.
The Jays return home Tuesday night to host Texas. Someone in the Yankees dugout apparently started yelling at Gomez as he walked back to the Astros dugout.
Carlos Gomez got into a heated exchange with the Yankees’ dugout. It was not immediately clear to whom he was yelling.
Tempers flared between the Astros and Yankees on Tuesday (US time) with a likely instigator at the center of it all.
His next time up, Gomez launched a three-run homer into the Yankees’ bullpen to cap a six-run seventh inning.
Nova walked Carlos Correa with two outs. Ellsbury appeared to misjudge it off the bat, taking a step back at first, and was not able to recover in time as he missed on a sliding attempt, the ball trickling past him for an RBI triple. He finished 0 for 2 with a called strikeout…. Luis Valbuena then flied out to center. “With the Angels in a nosedive, the Astros are back in control, leading the Rangers by four games and the Angels by 5.5 games”. Keuchel kept him there, getting Chase Headley to ground to second.
It’s hard to complain about a guy that is 15-6 with a 2.28 ERA, but it’s no secret that Dallas Keuchel has not been the dominate pitcher from earlier in the season.
Rasmus led off the inning with a double and Gattis laid into a 2-and-2 curveball and sent it into the seats in left for his 20th homer of the season and 7-0 lead. That inning got away from him (after) the confusion at first base, two people at first base.
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Greg Bird, inserted into the lineup with Teixeira still nursing a bone bruise on his right leg, threatened to leave the yard with two on and two out in the bottom of the eighth, but Marisnick caught it just in front of the 385-foot marker in right-center.
